Application Security Contracts in Wales

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Application Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 56 67
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Application Security 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.50% 0.79% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.91% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £644 - £681
25th Percentile £652 £463 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £475 £775
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -38.71% +34.78%
75th Percentile £679 £488 £800
90th Percentile £686 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Application Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 548 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.05% 86.44% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 421 620
10th Percentile £172 £183 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 30
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.18
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £18.57
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £30.13
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Application Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Wales

Application Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Security in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Application Security in Wales

Application Security
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +14 2 £666 +40.26% 1
Application Security
UK

Application Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode